872 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

E je une mê vecje massime chê che, quant che si à scartât l’impussibil, ce che al reste, ancje se improbabil, e scuen jessi la veretât.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.